Improvement in portable straining-presses



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STEPHEN MOORE AND` HOMER ROGERS, OF SUDBURY, MASSA CHUSETTS,

Leners Patent No. 91,958, me .nine 29, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN PORTABLE STRAINING-PRESSES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all persons to whom these presents may come Beit known that we, STEPHEN MoonE and Ho- MER ROGERS, of Sudbury, of the county of Middlesex, and State of Massachusetts, have made a new and useful Improvementor Invention, having reference to Portable Strainiug-Presses; and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specilil with a grating, a, and a lip, b, the latter being ex tended up from the said bottom, and designed to receive and support the lower edge of a cylindrical case, B, which constitutes, with such bottom and a strainer, C, placed on the grating thereof, a vessel for straining a liquid from any material.

From opposite parts of the said bottom, two hooked ears, c c, are extended, and midway between them, there is along handle, d, projected .from the bottom, in manner as represented.

Furthermore, atthe lower part of the handle there extends from the bottom a projection, e, which serves to enable a person, while the straining-vessel may be resting on and over another vessel, to hold the former steady -by pressing the projection against the supporting-vessel, such being usually done while the person maybe in the act of pulling toward him the bail of the pressing-n1echanism.

Within the case B is afollower, D, having extended above its upper surface a stepped projection, E, which, in form', is like a Hight ofsteps.

lVith this stepped projection a toggle, F, pivoted The said bail formed in manner as represented, is pivoted upon the Ifaperson, while having hold of the handle d, places the foot of the toggle von either of the steps of the projection E,'and pulls the bail toward the handle, the follower may be forced downward within the case.

The bail, the toggle, and the stepped projection, constitute a means of readily ei'ecting a downward movement of the follower.

" he stepped projection admits of the toggle being adjusted asma-y be necessary, in order to produce the said downward movement ofthe follower, when the bail may be drawn toward the handle.

The handle l not only enables the expressing-vessel to be supported to advantage over another vessel while the pressilig-mechanism is beingpnt in operation, but, with the bail and toggle thrown back toward the handle, and the follower removed from the expressiing-vessel, the said vessel can be straining-dippeiz The projection e supports the vessel against the strain on it of the bail while being drawn toward the handle.

le lare aware of the combined press and strainer, as represented in the specilication oi' the United States Patent No. 78,981, granted June 1G, 1868, to Joseph H. Littlefield.

We are also aware of the combined press and strainer represented in Letters Patent No. 85,530, dated J annary 5, 1869, .and granted to the said Littlefield.

lVe make no claim to either of the apparatus, or any part thereof, described in the specications of such patents.

Nor do we claim the combination of a straining-vessel, a follower, and a means of pressing such :follower into the straining-vessel, as such a combination involves the principles of various kinds of presses used for expressing a liquid from a solid.

That wc do claim, in a portable straining-press, as our invention, is as follows.

The arrangement and combination of the bail and toggle applied to the bottom of the expressing-vessel,

with the stepped projection applied to the follower..

Also, the arrangement and combination of the handle with the expressing-vessel, and the bail, toggle, and stepped projection applied to the said vessel and the follower', in manner and so as to operate therewith,l substantially as specified.

Also, the arrangement and combination of the projection e with the handle d, the expressing-vessel, and the bail, toggle, and stepped projection, applied to the expressil'ig-vessel and follower, in manner and so as to operate therewith, as explained.

STEPHEN MOORE. HOMER ROGERS.

Witnesses;

R. H. EDDY, S. N. PIPER.

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